Category Archives: democracy

The rural hamlet of Angwin has lost a presiding spirit. Duane Cronk is gone. Duane was a founding member of Save Rural Angwin. He was our mentor and good friend. As our senior advisor, he helped us to see...

The Bill Dodd/ Palmaz Connection: Christian Palmaz has already taken over 1200 hours of Napa County Planning Department time on his private heliport application, which has been turned down by the Planning Commission (4-1) and the Airport Land Use...

Article II, section 1 of our California Constitution provides “All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public...

This letter to the editor addressing the dark methods of manipulating voters, recently appeared in the Napa Valley Register. The wine industry has promised a million dollars to defeat Measure C, using some of these methods. Over 7000 voters...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2018 CONTACT Nina Erlich-Williams for Yes on C C: 415-577-1153, nina@publicgoodpr.com Per state law, the court can only approve changes to ballot arguments that have been shown to be objectively false and misleading Napa,...

Photo: Duane advocating in another year Duane Cronk wrote the following article for Eyes on Napa for the May 2016 newsletter. We reprint it here, in our remembering Duane Cronk series. His message has only proven to be more...

The following Letter to the Editor to the Napa Valley Register addresses an all too familiar argument against Measure C (watershed and oak woodland protections), and we might add, Measure D (no private heliports): the impingement on private property...

On Wednesday, March 7, in a stunning vote of 4-0, the Napa County Planning Commission sent Caldwell Winery back to the drawing board after Coombsville residents objected to a number of issues, including a faulty traffic study, fire danger,...

What’s a “push poll”? These are neither polls nor research and are a very expensive, controversial, negative political campaign practice. The big-money corporate wineries that are working to defeat a measure they see threatening their profits are already using...

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